Difference between Relieve and Alleviate

RELIEVE vs ALLEVIATE: VERB

To make prominent or effective by contrast; set off.
To rob or deprive.
To enter the game as a relief pitcher after (another pitcher).
To free from a specified duty by providing or acting as a substitute.
To release (a person) from an obligation, restriction, or burden.
To rescue from siege.
To free from pain, anxiety, or distress.
To cause a lessening or alleviation of.
To make less tedious, monotonous, or unpleasant.
To ease of any imposition, burden, wrong, or oppression, by judicial or legislative interposition, as by the removal of a grievance, by indemnification for losses, or the like; to right.
To release from a post, station, or duty; to put another in place of, or to take the place of, in the bearing of any burden, or discharge of any duty.
To free, wholly or partly, from any burden, trial, evil, distress, or the like; to give ease, comfort, or consolation to; to give aid, help, or succor to; to support, strengthen, or deliver.
To raise or remove, as anything which depresses, weighs down, or crushes; to render less burdensome or afflicting; to alleviate; to abate; to mitigate; to lessen
To raise up something in; to introduce a contrast or variety into; to remove the monotony or sameness of.
To cause to seem to rise; to put in relief; to give prominence or conspicuousness to; to set off by contrast.
To furnish assistance or aid to.
To lift up; to raise again, as one who has fallen; to cause to rise.

To extenuate; to palliate.
To lighten or lessen (physical or mental troubles); to mitigate, or make easier to be endured; ; -- opposed to aggravate.
To lighten or lessen the force or weight of.
To lessen or reduce.
To make (pain, for example) less intense or more bearable: : relieve.

Synonyms Mitigate. Assuage, etc. (see alleviate); diminish, lighten.
To rise; arise.
To mitigate; lessen; soften.
To give assistance to; support.
To ease of any burden, wrong, or oppression by judicial or legislative interposition, by indemnification for losses, or the like; right.
To release from a post, station, task, or duty by substituting another person or party; put another in the place of, or take the place of, in the performance of any duty, the bearing of any burden, or the like: as, to relieve a sentinel or guard.
Specifically, to bring efficient help to (a besieged place); raise the siege of.
To give relief or prominence to, literally or figuratively; hence, to give contrast to; heighten the effect or interest of, by contrast or variety.
To lift up; set up a second time; hence, to collect; assemble.
To remove, wholly or partially, as anything that depresses, weighs down, pains, oppresses, etc.; mitigate; alleviate; lessen.
To free, wholly or partly, from pain, grief, want, anxiety, trouble, encumbrance, or anything that is considered to be an evil; give ease, comfort, or consolation to; help; aid; support; succor: as, to relieve the poor and needy.
(idiom) (relieve (oneself)) To urinate or defecate.

Synonyms Alleviate, Relieve, Mitigate, Assuage, Allay, diminish, soften, abate, qualify, reduce. See allay. Where these words are applied to pain, etc., alleviate is to lighten somewhat, and especially in a soothing way; relieve and allay go further than alleviate, removing in large measure or altogether. Mitigate is to make mild, less severe; perhaps it stands midway between alleviate and relieve. Assuage is to calm down, and that idea underlies all its uses; allay conveys similarly the idea of putting to rest.
To represent as less; lessen the magnitude or heinousness of; extenuate: applied to moral conduct: as, to alleviate an offense.
To make light, in a figurative sense; remove in part; lessen, mitigate, or make easier to be endured: as, to alleviate sorrow, pain, care, punishment, burdens, etc.: opposed to aggravate.

Let off, Still, Free, Excuse, Exempt, Deliver, Salvage, Save, Palliate, Salve, Remedy, Allay, Assuage, Ease, Alleviate

Remedy, Solve, Counteract, Reduce, Minimize, Relieving, Allay, Mitigate, Lessen, Ameliorate, Facilitate, Palliate, Assuage, Ease, Relieve

Lessen, Take over, Let off, Still, Free, Excuse, Exempt, Salvage, Save, Palliate, Salve, Remedy, Allay, Assuage, Ease

Remedy, Solve, Counteract, Reduce, Minimize, Relieving, Allay, Mitigate, Lessen, Ameliorate, Facilitate, Palliate, Assuage, Ease, Relieve

Treatment necessary either to control or relieve symptoms.
Open all service valves and relieve system pressure.
Celestite can relieve stress, anxiety and obsessive behaviours.
Management will not even come and relieve you!
ASEAN to relieve stress and build unit cohesion.
Have you taken any medication to relieve pain?
ASAIHSr forces can relieve the Red Army troops.
ADVAIR DISKUS does not relieve sudden breathing problems.
Moreover, it will relieve some of the stress.
Use nutmeg to relieve pain, soothe indigestion, relieve insomnia, and improve brain function.

RIGHT NOW to alleviate the plastics pollution problem?
Being prepared helped alleviate some of my anxiety.
Disenrollment will eliminate or materially alleviate the condition.
What happens when the situation is alleviate it.
Some academic centers are merging to alleviate problems.
They adopt different strategies to alleviate filter degeneracy.
They alleviate drug resistance and improve therapeutic efficacy.
Yet, treatment can alleviate symptoms in most cases.
It is good to help alleviate suffering, that is, to help alleviate effects.
For example, your cat helps alleviate your insomnia, while your dog helps alleviate your anxiety and stress.